The truth is out there.noreply@blogger.com (stan)Sun, 5 Apr 2026 14:54:59 -0400Blogger http://www.blogger.com140125http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/en-usnoSwitchfootHere is a new song by SwitchfootHere is a new song by Switchfootnoreply@blogger.comhttp://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2006/01/what-biblical-inerrancy-means.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:51:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113763966973859466Al Mohler does a knockout job of explaining what it means to believe that the Bible is literally true.Christians, on the other hand, look to the Bible as the word of God, but acknowledge the human dimension of Scripture as well as its divine inspiration. Of course, nothing should be taken for granted in these postmodern times, so let me identify myself as one who believes in the inerrancy, 21http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2006/01/can-islam-peacefully-co-exist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:58:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113682718767919892Pope Benedict apparently thinks not, according to one Father Joseph D. Fessio, who is the Provost of Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, and knows the pope personally. This is a transcript from the Hugh Hewitt show. This is another reason to read the Koran for myself. Keep in mind here that Cardinal Ratzinger is the same guy as Pope Benedict, so you're not confused.Also, the context of much 2http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/12/sharlett-letters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:45:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113457035213556754In my recent post on Bob Smietana, who wrote about Al Mohler, I mentioned Jeffrey Sharlett, who is a rising young star in journalism, with big pieces in Rolling Stone and Harpers Magazine this year, not to mention his book "Killing the Buddha," and his outstanding, though quite far left, religion website, The Revealer. I probably overstepped my bounds by stating that I thought that Jeff is "often4http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/12/cause-or-effect.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:38:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113416105685830181Most medical and mental health professionals would agree that there is a link between depression and sexual and drug using behavior in adolescents. However, it is commonly assumed that depressed teens use sex and drugs to “medicate” their depression. Thus, when faced with a depressed, sexually active teen, adults may overlook sexual or drug using behavior with the hope that the risky behavior 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/12/fleeing-boredom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:29:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113408483240232700"Man nurtures the suspicion that God, at the end of the day, takes something away from his life, that God is a competitor who limits our freedom and that we will be fully human only when we will have set him aside."There emerges in us the suspicion that the person who doesn't sin at all is basically a boring person, that something is lacking in his life, the dramatic dimension of being autonomous2http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/missing-point.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:07:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113221228319209938I left a comment on the blog of Bob Smietana, who writes for Christianity Today, and has written at least one column for the Revealer, which is a religion news blog run by Jeff Sharlet, a hugely talented and smart young writer who is at times very insightful on religion, but often also very mistaken, because he is trying to write mostly about Christianity as if he is a dispassionate observer, 6http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/cindy-sheehan-musical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:09:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113220783546469642Hilarious.1http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/intelligent-design-in-college.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:28:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113207223297043106The Wall Street Journal reports, albeit somewhat reluctantly it seems, that intelligent design is making inroads in the universities.Thank God. Maybe it will return a measure of sanity and reason to those places.0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/reading-in-new-york.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:06:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113207212328515197While in New York, I scrounged around a few area publications, and found some interesting stuff.The Village Voice looks at all the ways that abortion is already being limited and restricted by laws and court rulings put in place since Roe v. Wade. The L Magazine, a little glossy that as far as I can tell has nothing to do with lesbianism, bemoans the "civil rights" record of SCOTUS nominee Sam 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/end-of-newspapers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:03:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113207079587327632The New York Review of Books looks at the present state of a media that is being revolutionized. I am wondering myself what the future of newspapers is--I think that in their present form they are doomed but will undergo some sort of reinvention. What that will be and whether there are many desirable jobs in that new form I do not know.0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/who-is-lying-about-iraq.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:59:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113207051607039238Norman Podhoretz wrote yesterday in Commentary magazine, which I think is part of the Wall Street Journal, that it is the left liberals among the Democrats who are lying, not Bush. Avoid the "no, he did" syndrome by actually reading through the piece before you talk about this topic with your friends.1http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/european-jihad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:56:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113207028659747888Newsweek wonders if the riots in France are the beginning of what Mark Steyn is calling a new intifada, or Muslim holy war in Europe.0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-am-elve.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:05:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113185491163110470I took a quiz to find out. Click on the link below to find out what you are.Elvish To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? brought to you by Quizilla1http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/french-riots-spread-riots-also-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 3 Nov 2005 17:48:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113106003129696473"Rioting Spreads to 20 Towns Around Paris: Rioters Shoot at Police, Torch Car Dealerships, Buses in Eighth Day of Violence in Paris Suburbs," reports the Associated Press.Also, in a story that has not been reported in the MSM (mainstream media), there have been riots by immigrant, Muslim youth in Denmark as well. Click here and hereto read about that.Click here to read quotes on what has created 1http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/thank-you50-cent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:05:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113088655487490874I never thought I'd say this, but I am proud of 50 Cent:50 CENT SLAMS KANYE'S 'BUSH IS RACIST' COMMENTRapper 50 CENT has lashed out at fellow hip-hop star KANYE WEST for accusing US President GEORGE W BUSH of racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The IN DA CLUB star believes human intervention could not have prevented the effects of the hurricane, which killed over a thousand people in the US 2http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/french-riots-are-muslim-riots.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:56:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113088552703375096None of the news outlets are reporting the riots as such, but when you read three to four paragraphs into each story, there it is:Fifth night of unrest in Paris suburb following deaths of two youthsPolice fired tear gas canisters and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials said had also spread to neighbouring 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/11/press-as-antagonists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:36:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113088202772718053Nick Lemann is one of the few somewhat objective staff writers at The New Yorker (he's also professor of journalism at NYU), and he has written a piece this week on the confusing Valerie Plame case that doesn't do much to clear up the confusion. But there is one illuminating passage, where he talks about the way the press, or news media, has been transformed since Watergate and Richard Nixon:In 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/inner-lives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:44:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113018363440592516In a recent article on C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" stories, which will be made into movies starting this December, Frederica Mathewes Green hits on a theme that Washington Post movie reviewer Stephen Hunter made recently as well:In contemporary entertainment we hear almost nothing about the character of the characters: Those who fill our movies, TV shows, and contemporary novels are 3http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/whole-moral-scene.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:16:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113011676279434056"The good will is manifested in its active caring for particular goods that we can do something about, not in dreaming of "the greatest happiness of the greatest number" or even of my own 'happiness' or of "duty for duty's sake." Generally speaking, thinking in high level abstractions will always defeat moral will. As Bradley and others before him clearly saw, "my station and its duties" is 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/solitude.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:06:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-113011606114780675"The problem with solitude is not being alone, it is convincing ourselves that we are unnecessary, that the world will not collapse if we go away. Solitude is the discipline of letting go of our self-importance, letting go of our belief that we are necessary for the world to continue." -- Dallas Willard2http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/capote.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:35:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-112990629088046549One of my favorite actors, Philip Seymor Hoffman, stars in the movie "Capote," which opens today. Here is Stephen Hunter's take:Truman Capote was as corny as Kansas in November, which is to say not corny at all.So what was the elfin, mincing, vicuna-wrapped, dowager-loving, gossip-mongering, gay, E.T.-looking writer doing in a small village in the western edges of the Jayhawk State in November 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/tina-brown-decoder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:45:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-112922048934513876Her column today in the Post is full of non sequiturs that feather the ear but bewilder the mind. "The bleakest detail of Miers's résumé is that her decision to accept Jesus Christ as her savior took place at the office."But if she had come to faith while eating sushi and reading the Dalai Lamai on a rainy day in the city.....? A ok?Miers' "single-minded pursuit of career advancement" has "come 1http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/tina-doesnt-get-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:40:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-112921826625822279Only a great writer would use a phrase like, "the muzzled nature of her striving."Unfortunately, Tina Brown doesn't get that Harriet Miers is simply...humilde.0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/bird-flu-reaches-europe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:23:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-112920988078307930BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A strain of bird flu that can be deadly for humans has spread from Asia to the fringes of Europe, the European Commission said on Thursday, warning countries to prepare for a potential pandemic.EU Health and Consumer Protection chief Markos Kyprianou said a strain of bird flu found in Turkey had been identified as the same H5N1 virus that killed more than 60 people in Asia 0http://garagescholars.blogspot.com/2005/10/gradual-mutation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (stan)Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:54:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11468832.post-112896876831356713Read this story from today's Post for the history, and for the great reporting by David Brown that shows what an adventure and mystery scientific work can be. It's great stuff.But here is the news:The Spanish flu killed at least 50 million people around the world in slightly more than a year -- late winter 1918 into the spring of 1919. Researchers have never figured out what made the virus so 5